Gov. Charlie Crist appointed county court judge Donald Hafele, of Delray Beach, to the circuit court vacancy created by the death of Judge Jeffery Winikoff. Here's Crist's statement on the appointment: TALLAHASSEE ??? Governor Charlie Crist today announced the

Guest blogger Karen Shih gets us up to date on Top Design:This week, the designers have to create a room of their choice around a Swarovski chandelier. Eddie, who has immunity after a good Pop Design, gets to choose the...

by Frank James The American Civil Liberties Union has recommendations for actions the new president should take on his first day, within his first first 100 days and during the first year to restore constitutional rights that eroded during the...

by Frank James That was some dust-up yesterday, wasn't it, over those seven-year old remarks Sen. Barack Obama made during a panel discussion carried on Chicago's local public radio show which wound up on the Drudge Report? One thing that...

Earlier this month, Gov. David A. Paterson signed a sweeping package of pension-reform bills into law that will make it more difficult for recipients of public pensions to also draw public salaries. But at least one double-dipper, Nassau District...

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON - Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday. In court records unsealed...

I???m glad a Leon County judge struck down Amendment 5 today, temporarily derailing the controversial tax swap that would have cut the state-mandated portion of school property tax. The fatal flaw of the amendment: Too damn confusing. For that, blame...

John McCain, speaking in Dayton, has now adopted Drudge's story line of the day, criticizing Obama for a 2001 interview on public radio in Chicago in which he discussed the Supreme Court's hands-off approach toward incorporating "redistributive" principles in.

by James Oliphant Barack Obama will be interviewed on the NBC Nightly News tonight, part of his Closing Argument Tour--coming soon to a swing-state near you. In the interview with Brian Williams, Obama explained the criteria he would employ for...

Attorneys prosecuting and defending four Gloucester County Supervisors charged with misusing office had little to say publicly a day before they were due in court.Defense attorneys are no doubt hoping that substitute Circuit Court Judge Thomas Shadrick will gr